This Week I Learned - Week #10 2023

This Week I Learned - 

* Spring Cloud GCP version 4.0 officially supports Spring Boot 3.x. Java 17 is now a minimum requirement.

* Free ebook: Succeeding with AI - How to make AI work for your business by Veljko Krunic, Manning, 2023

* An array of new job types, functions and roles with titles like Cloud Cost Optimization Engineer, Hybrid Network Engineer, or Multi-Cloud Specialist have come into existence with the emergence of cloud technology. Current job roles which are focused on modernizing applications, migrating workloads, and other activities to get the most out of the cloud will stabilize over time, and native cloud architectures are going to become the norm leading to the need for new job functions. Google has role-based learning paths to prepare for new roles.

* Flutter is Google’s open-source technology for creating mobile, desktop, and web apps with a single codebase. Unlike other popular solutions, Flutter is not a framework or library; it’s a complete SDK – software development kit. Let’s briefly clarify it here to make sure we’re on the same page.

* A library is basically a reusable piece of code that you put in your application to perform a particular function.

* A framework is a structure that provides you with a skeleton architecture for building software. It’s a set of tools that serves as a foundation for your app, requiring you to fill in the blanks with your code to complete the entire structure and get the desired functionality.

* An SDK has a much wider scope as it’s a collection of tools, including libraries, documentation, APIs, sometimes frameworks, and more, giving you all you need for software development. And that’s the case with Flutter — it already contains everything necessary to build cross-platform applications.

* Ionic is the most budget-friendly framework among Xamarin React-native and Nativescript. 

* Ora2Pg is an open source tool used to migrate an Oracle database or MySQL database to a PostgreSQL database. The tool scans and extracts the database schema and data and then generates PostgreSQL-compatible SQL scripts that you can use to populate the database.

* Data fetishism is a phenomenon evolving when active users of self-tracking devices become enticed by the satisfaction and sense of achievement and fulfillment that numerical data offer. Proponents of such lines of criticism tend to claim that data in this sense become simplistic, where complex phenomena become transcribed into reductionist data.

* When spell check is turned on, you can choose between 'Basic' and 'Enhanced' spell check. With basic spell check, Chrome or your operating system provides the spell check. It doesn’t send the text that you enter in your browser to Google. In case of enhanced spell check, the text that you enter in your browser is sent to Google for improved spelling suggestions.